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ILoveSludge t1_iwt7spk wrote

What was the point of the exercise? Is there a hypothesis you are examining here?

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Me_Melissa t1_iwvzfmm wrote

It was an attempt to test the implied hypothesis of another commenter who basically said that red states are red, bc their people don't support social services, bc their poor who use those services are more fraudulent and criminal, bc they're black.

So we came up with some objective metrics to attempt to plot how many of the poor are black and how badly they get incarcerated grouped by R and D.

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ILoveSludge t1_iww63pv wrote

I think this is trying to do too much at once and ends up not actually conveying anything meaningful. IMO

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terrykrohe OP t1_ix0i53y wrote

... you are right: there is "too much at once"

... it is a "presenter" problem: how much to present and 'how deep'?

I am hoping that the work presented will "catch the eye" ... and address the few who are curious and willing to spend the time/effort to "figure it out".

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terrykrohe OP t1_iwt9h2o wrote

... there is NO hypothesis

The post was created when a commenter of a previous post was curious about B/W incarceration and B/W income ... data from the sources was used to answer the inquiry.

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